{{short description|American politician & judge (born 1970)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2016}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Mark Gundrum | office = Judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals<br>for the 2nd district | appointer = Scott Walker | term_start = November 4, 2011 | term_end = | predecessor = Daniel P. Anderson | successor = | office1 = Judge of the Waukesha County Circuit Court<br>Branch 2 | term_start1 = August 1, 2010 | term_end1 = November 4, 2011 | predecessor1 = Richard Congdon | successor1 = Jennifer Dorow | state_assembly2 = Wisconsin | district2 = 84th | term_start2 = January 4, 1999 | term_end2 = July 31, 2010 | predecessor2 = Mary Lazich | successor2 = Mike Kuglitsch | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1970|3|20}} | birth_place = Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | party = Republican | education = University of Wisconsin, Madison (BA, JD) | allegiance = United States | branch = United States Army<br>{{*}}U.S. Army Reserve | service_years = 2000–present | unit = Army Judge Advocate General's Corps | battles = Iraq War }} '''Mark Gundrum''' (born March 20, 1970) is an American lawyer and politician serving as a judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals for District II.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Wisconsin Court System - Court of Appeals Judges - Judge Gundrum|url=https://www.wicourts.gov/courts/appeals/judges/gundrum.htm|access-date=2020-08-17|website=www.wicourts.gov}}</ref> He previously served as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1999 to 2010.
==Early life and education== Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Gundrum graduated from Catholic Memorial High School, where he played for the school's gridiron football team.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19871025&id=E2caAAAAIBAJ&pg=5929,254257&hl=en|title= Google News Archive Search|publisher=The Milwaukee Journal|accessdate=March 28, 2016}}</ref> He received his bachelor's and law degrees from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19950327&id=nfEcAAAAIBAJ&pg=6869,4790358&hl=en|title= Google News Archive Search|publisher=The Milwaukee Journal|accessdate=March 28, 2016}}</ref>
== Career == Gundrum served on the Hales Corners, Wisconsin village board. He later worked as a staff attorney for Rudolph T. Randa, a judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1683&dat=19960419&id=IHAaAAAAIBAJ&pg=1665,4182138&hl=en|title=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Google News Archive Search|publisher=|accessdate=March 28, 2016}}</ref> He joined the United States Army Reserve in 2000, and was deployed to Iraq in 2008.<ref>{{cite web|author=Brookfield |url=http://patch.com/wisconsin/brookfield-wi/gundrum-appointed-to-court-of-appeals-in-waukesha |title=Gundrum Appointed to Court of Appeals in Waukesha | Brookfield, WI Patch |publisher=Patch.com |date=2011-11-04 |accessdate=2020-03-05}}</ref>
In 1998, Gundrum won the race to succeed Mary Lazich in the Wisconsin State Assembly as a Republican.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1683&dat=19980604&id=WnAaAAAAIBAJ&pg=5279,4383538&hl=en|title=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Google News Archive Search|publisher=|accessdate=March 28, 2016}}</ref> In the 2002 election, he defeated fellow state legislator Marc C. Duff, who ran against Gundrum due to redistricting.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1683&dat=20020911&id=SicqAAAAIBAJ&pg=3998,96263&hl=en|title=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Google News Archive Search|publisher=|accessdate=March 28, 2016}}</ref> While serving in the Wisconsin State Assembly, Gundrum worked with Steven Avery, who was exonerated after being falsely convicted of a sexual assault, to pass a criminal justice reform bill.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.people.com/article/making-a-murderer-lawmaker-talks-about-avery-bill|title=Making a Murderer: Lawmaker Talks About the Avery Bill : People.com|work=PEOPLE.com|accessdate=March 28, 2016}}</ref> In 2010, Gundrum was elected as a Circuit Court judge for Waukesha County. He was soon thereafter appointed by Governor Scott Walker in 2011 to fill a vacancy on the Wisconsin Court of Appeals.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wicourts.gov/courts/appeals/judges/gundrum.htm|title=Wisconsin Court System - Court of Appeals Judges - Judge Gundrum|publisher=|accessdate=March 28, 2016}}</ref> Gundrum successfully ran for the seat in 2013 and was re-elected in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mark Gundrum|url=https://ballotpedia.org/Mark_Gundrum|access-date=2020-08-17|website=Ballotpedia|language=en}}</ref>
Gundrum was named as one of Governor Scott Walker's finalists to replace Justice David Prosser, Jr. on the Wisconsin Supreme Court in June 2016.<ref>{{cite web|last=Stein|first=Jason|date=2016-06-22|title=Scott Walker names finalists for Supreme Court vacancy|url=http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/scott-walker-names-finalists-for-supreme-court-vacancy-b99748979z1-383960291.html|accessdate=2020-03-05|publisher=Jsonline.com}}</ref>
== Personal life == Gundrum and his wife, Mary, married in 1996. They are Catholic and have ten children, whom they homeschooled through Wisconsin Virtual Academy. Their youngest child was born with encephalocele and a facial cleft, which required surgery to correct at Boston Children's Hospital.<ref>{{cite web|last=English|first=Bella|date=January 28, 2013|title=Family's agonizing trail leads to infant's surgery|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/01/28/family-agonizing-trail-leads-infant-rare-surgery-children-hospital/WEmUG3hQ3ghz8rKdPMBfhN/story.html|accessdate=March 28, 2016|work=The Boston Globe}}</ref> Gundrum appeared in the 2015 Netflix documentary series ''Making a Murderer'', detailing Avery's case.
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